Detailed knowledge of the residual stress of your components, before, during and after service, brings many benefits to you and your customers. We offer access to the expertise and state-of-the-art facilities of the top rated 5 star Manchester Materials Science Centre, and also to the neutron and x-ray facilities at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory and Daresbury Laboratory. We provide servicesto a variety of large and small companies in the aerospace, automotive, marine andpower industries.

Case Study OneCase Study Two

Safety critical aeroengine components have
been Residual
stresses in a two ton redesigned to offer the twin
advantages of
longer impeller
casting from the powerservice life with reduced component
weight.
generation industry were Such advances are made possible
through
measured as part of an investigation knowledge of the residual
stress state of
the
into failure in service. The Protocomponents following novel
surface
treatments.
X-ray diffractometer is a portable facility,The residual stresses
were measured
using allowing
the measurement of large our Proto X-ray
diffractometer.
components either in the laboratory or
in-situ at the place of operation

Proto
X-Ray
diffractometer
Being a portable system, the Proto
can used out of the laboratory